So I said to him -asws ...

So I said to him -asws , ‘And why would that be, O son -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww ?’ قال: ان الله عز وجل أبى إلا ان يجرى فيه سنن الانبياء عليهم السلام في غيباتهم وانه لا بد له ياسدير من استيفاء مدد غيباتهم قال الله عز وجل (لتركبن طبقا عن طبق) أي سننا على سنن من كان قبلكم He -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Refused except that He -azwj Make to flow in him -asws the Sunnah of the Prophets -as with regards to their occultation(s), and it is inevitable for him -asws , O Sudeyr, to satisfy (be equal to) the terms of (all) their -as occultation(s).

Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: You will be indulging in a state after a state [84:19] , i.e., a Sunnah from the Sunnahs for the ones who were before you’.

[22] قال (صلى الله عليه و آله): «لتركبن سنة من كان قبلكم حذو النعل بالنعل و القذة بالقذة، و لا تخطئون طريقهم، شبرا بشبر و ذراعا بذراع، و باعا بباع، حتى إن كان من قبلكم دخل جحر ضب لدخلتموه (Ali Bin Ibrahim (Tafseer Qummi)) – He -saww (Rasool-Allah -saww ) said: ‘You will be riding upon the ways of the ones who were before you like the (following) of the slipper of the slipper, and the (following of the) shoe of the shoe, step by step, and not erring from their ways, inch (Shibr) by inch, yard (Zira’) by yard, and experience what they experience, to the extent that if the ones before you entered the hole of a lizard, you will enter it (as well)’.

قال: قالوا: اليهود و النصارى تعني، يا رسول الله؟ قال: «فمن أعني! لتنقض عرى الإسلام عروة عروة، فيكون أول ما تنقضون من دينكم الامامة ، و آخره الصلاة He (the narrator) said, ‘They (people) said, ‘(Is it) the Jews and the Christians that you -saww mean by this, O Rasool-Allah -saww ?’ He -saww said: ‘So who (else) do I -saww mean? You will be invalidating the Handhold of Al-Islam, handhold by handhold.